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The Effect of Immigration on Wages in Three European Countries
Hartog, Joop; Zorlu, Aslan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives’ wages from two to … small effects on natives’ wages and no dominant robust patterns of substitution and complementarity. Effects on wages of …
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Receiving Countries' Perspectives: The Case of Sweden
Gerdes, Christer; Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … immigration. The labour immigration expanded for example after the enlargement in 2004 but not so much as in for example the … United Kingdom and Ireland. Other forms of immigration have been more important. On the other hand, the migration has been …
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Immigrant wages in the Spanish labour market: does the origin of human capital matter?
Sanromà, Esteban; Ramos, Raúl; Simón, Hipólito - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2009
countries and in Spain. It also examines the impact on wages of the legal status. The evidence shows that returns to host …
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Immigrant Wages in the Spanish Labour Market: Does the Origin of Human Capital Matter?
Sanromá, Esteve; Ramos, Raul; Simón, Hipólito - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
countries and in Spain. It also examines the impact on wages of the legal status. The evidence shows that returns to host …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012884
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Wage Assimilation of Immigrants in Spain
Jiménez-Ridruejo, Zenón; Arribas, Carlos Borondo - Asociación Española de Economía y Finanzas … - 2011
In this study we quantify the effect of the years of residence in Spain on the earnings of immigrants. We take sex, origin, education and age into account. The results are clearly positive, the longer the length of residence the more earnings, confirming the hypothesis of wage assimilation of...
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The Impact of Immigration on the Local Labor Market Outcomes of Blue Collar Workers: Panel Data Evidence
Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
substantial evidence that immigration lowers the median annual wages of natives. The estimated negative effects are also much … endogenous changes in occupation and location attenuate the impact of immigration on natives' wages. We also find much larger …Using a large administrative French panel data set for 1976-2007, we examine how low- educated immigration affects the …
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The impact of immigration on the local labor market outcomes of blue collar workers: panel data evidence
Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
substantial evidence that immigration lowers the median annual wages of natives. The estimated negative effects are also much … endogenous changes in occupation and location attenuate the impact of immigration on natives’ wages. We also find much larger …Using a large administrative French panel data set for 1976-2007, we examine how low- educated immigration affects the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185658
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Skilled Immigration, Innovation and Wages of Native-born American
Islam, Asadul; Islam, Faridul; Nguyen, Chau - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2013
The paper examines the effects of skilled immigration on US wages that are due to innovation. We extend the studies by … Hunt & Gauthier-Loiselle (2010), and Hunt (2011) to explore the immigration-innovation-wages nexus. Using the National … Survey of College Graduates (NSCG) and the US Census datasets we find a significant positive effect of immigration on wages …
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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William; Lincoln, William - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2014
to date in understanding the impact of high skilled immigration from the perspective of the firm and the open areas that … call for more research. Since much of the U.S. immigration process for skilled workers rests in the hands of employer firms …
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Immigrants and entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) September, pp. 1-10
Immigrants are widely perceived to be highly entrepreneurial, contributing to economic growth and innovation, and self-employment is often viewed as a means of enhancing labor market integration and success among immigrants. Accordingly, many countries have established special visas and entry...
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